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Rockwall County, Texas

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

2historic places

—earliest paper

1873formed

107,819pop. 2020

9cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 2 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1994. Most listings are in or near Rockwall, Royse City.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Texas is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Rockwall titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

1 of 2 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

2 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
First Methodist Church of Rockwall	Rockwall	Building	2007
Royse City Lodge No. 663 A.F. & A.M.	Royse City	Building	1994

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Rockwall was formed in 1873 (1873-03-01) from Kaufman.

ROCKWALL created from KAUFMAN.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Rockwall County population from 1880 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
2,984	8,531	8,591	7,051	6,156	5,878	14,528	43,080	107,819

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

9 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 9 of 9 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Blackland Cemetery	32.91457	-96.3522
Chisholm Cemetery	32.8429	-96.37832
Clark Cemetery	32.92512	-96.46138
Fredonia Hill	32.9479	-96.47221
Kyser Cemetery	32.86162	-96.47526
Longhorn Cemetery	32.88124	-96.41776
Mount Zion Cemetery	32.96679	-96.41193
Parker Cemetery	32.95429	-96.47082
Peck Cemetery	32.86346	-96.46582

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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